Greetings!
This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mod@fas.harvard.edu>.
Upcoming Events
January 30, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Archival Pleasures; Or, Phillis Wheatley Was Never Alone"
Tara Bynum (Hampshire College), Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow;
"Death is neither the end, nor the beginning. Another look at the fate of dead Inca kings"
Isabel Yaya McKenzie (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris), Alice E. Adams Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/01/3…
Please notice the new time:
**Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Ports of Sanctuary: Maritime Marronage, Imperial Law and the Judicial Imaginary of Enslaved Mariners"
Mary Hicks (Amherst College, Mamolen Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:therzog@fas.harvard.edu> or delafuente(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:delafuente@fas.harvard.edu>.
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3-4:30/5:00 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Text and Book in Jewish Manuscript and Early Print Culture”
David Stern (Harvard)
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Samuel Diener (Harvard)
"Disaster and the National Body: Luís de Camões and Jerónimo Corte-Real"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
**Thursday, Feb. 7, 12 PM (Note: different time),
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Hard Hearts and Boiling Blood: Muslim Encounters with S. Gennaro in Early Modern Naples."
Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University, Dept. of Art & Art History)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Axes of Uncertainty and the Attribution of Women's Writing in Early Modern England"
Erin McCarthy, University of Newcastle
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Friday, February 8, 2019, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Locke on Complex Ideas and the Ethics of Belief"
Katherine Tabb (Columbia)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Monday, February 11, 2019 - 4:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar Cartography
Lecture: China Translated: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Formation of Early Modern World Geography
Florin-Stefan Morar, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Standard accounts about the formation of world geography in the early modern period describe world maps as the result of a process of empirical accumulation of data as result of navigation and exploration, mostly through the agency of European actors. This talk argues that in the case of China another dynamic was at play.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
Cartography | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
This seminar explores the spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities. It rethinks cartography as an inter-discipline and investigates key words such as mapping, space, place, and location across languages, cultures, and historical periods.
Monday, February 11, 3:00-6:30 pm
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
3rd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)
- Cosmopolitan Encounters: Jan van Eyck, Castile and the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in the Early Globalization. Manuel Parada López de Corselas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.
- Religious Policies in 15th-Century Castilian Court and the International Context of Flemish Painting. Jesús Folgado García, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid.
- Arts and Etiquetas: Titles, Functions, and the Position of Portraitists at the Court of Philip III. William Ambler, Independent Scholar, New York City.
- Gendered Divisions of Space in Spanish Habsburg Palaces. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia.
- New Spain in Microcosm: Map-Making and Artisanal Praxis in Viceregal Mexico. Dennis Carr, Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Discussion will be moderated by Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University.
Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA
Sponsored by: Real Colegio Complutense; University of Valencia; Fulbright Commission.
https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/3rd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult…
3rd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650) | Real Colegio Complutense - rcc.harvard.edu<https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/3rd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult…>
rcc.harvard.edu
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Their dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories.
Sign up for this event at https://rcc.harvard.edu/os_events/nojs/registration/1152968
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tenth Annual New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century Dinner Symposium
Speakers:
Catey Boyle, History, Harvard University; Seohyon Jung, English, Tufts University
Joey Kim, English, Boston University; Delanie Linden, Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kaitlin Quaranta, French, Brown University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Eighteenth-Century Studies | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
Eighteenth-Century Studies is a forum for new research and perspectives on the many cultures of the "long" eighteenth century (1660-1820). The seminar explores eighteenth-century literatures, histories, politics, philosophies, science, art, music, and material cultures from diverse theoretical, methodological, and national standpoints.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
"Reframing Worlds: Translating Travel Literature and Early Modern Print Culture"
Myron McShane (University of Toronto), R. David Parsons Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. at Fellow's Talk: Myron McShane<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/1…>
Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“Captive Objects: Piracy, Slavery, and Religious Artifacts in the Early Modern Mediterranean.”
Daniel Hershenzon (Comparative Spanish/Mediterranean History, U Conn)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "What Invoking the King´s Name Meant (and What it Did Not). Popular Royalism in Late Colonial Charcas"
Sergio Serulnikov (Universidad de San Andrés-Conicet, Argentina)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
"Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
Tuesday, February 19, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Kābūs: The Materiality of Nightmares in Islamicate Medical Literature, 1100-1500"
Shireen Hamza, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration"
Danielle Abdon Guimarães (Temple University), Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow
"The Black Spaniards: Logics of Inclusion in Colonial Lima"
Marcella Hayes (Harvard University), Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellows' Talks: Danielle Abdon and Marcella Hayes<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/2…>
*Wednesday, February 20, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Misha Teramura (Toronto)
"The End of More: Dilation and Constraint in the Sir Thomas More Manuscript"
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“A Communal Tree of Life: Western Sephardic Jews and the Ets Haim Library in Early Modern Amsterdam”
David Sclar
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
Thursday, 21 Feb., 4:00 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“How Men of Letters Invented the Scientific Revolution in the Age of Louis XIV”
Oded Rabinovitch (History, Tel Aviv University)
Location: TBD
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Brown University Medieval & Early Modern History Seminar<http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/>
blogs.brown.edu
A forum for faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars to share work in progress.
Thursday Feb 21, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print"
Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, English Department
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/1517-theuerdank-and-maximil…
Friday, February 22, 2019, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Lecture: "Fairyes or Divels?": Why Oberon belongs in Lust's Dominion
Andrea Crow, Boston College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
Monday, February 25, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
“Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment”
Colin Kidd (Univ of St Andrews, and CES, Harvard)
Location TBA.
Monday, February 25, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"TBA"
Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
Monday, Feb 25, 5:30pm (Lecture)
Thursday, Feb 28, 10:00 AM-noon and 2:00-4:00 pm (Workshops)
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture and Workshops in Early Book History: Speaker Simon Rettig
Houghton Library Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Join for a lecture by Dr. Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Space in the workshop is limited; RSVP using this form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__harvard.us15.list-2Dma…>.
Tuesday, Feb 26, 4:30 pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Adam Teller (History, Brown)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada"
Max Deardorff (The University of Florida)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
*Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Ayanna Thompson (Arizona State) and Katherine Rowe (William & Mary)
State of the Field Discussion
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*February 28, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Lecture: “Benevolent Empire: The Great Lisbon Earthquake and Disaster Relief in British North America”
Cynthia A. Kierner, George Mason University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, LL05
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
Thursday Feb 28, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Fortune’s Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics"
Jane Degenhardt, Professor of English, UMass Amherst
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Website Link<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-degenhardt-2019>
Mar 1, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library," a talk by Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/sean-moore>
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Tuesday, March 5, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group
Lecture: "Galileo’s Courtroom Drama: Defending the Compass in 1607"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:15-6pm
Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, both Harvard University
Lecture: “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race”
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College; Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Abstract: A neologism coined at a moment when humanity appeared capable of perfecting nature, “race” first referred to the differentiation of animal stock through breeding. With a focus on sixteenth-century Spanish Italy, this talk traces early modern breeders’ self-conscious struggle to produce and maintain race and natural philosophers’ preoccupation with its sheer artifice. As race slipped from animals to humans, what began as a means of designating temporary difference limited to a few generations became transgenerationally concretized in the taxonomy of Spanish Empire. Animal malleability became fixed human difference.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
Katherine Johnston (Beloit College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellow's Talk: Katherine Johnston<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/03/0…>
Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic"
Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable on Political Corruption in the 18th Century
Speakers:
Dwight Codr, English, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Morris, History, University of North Texas
John O’Brien, English, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Using History in Law: Indigenous Rights"
Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar History of the Book
Lecture: News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
*Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Play Reading: Knight of the Burning Pestle
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Friday, March 15, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege”
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
(more information as time approaches!)
Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
March 29, 2019, 4:30-6pm
Providence College Seminar in the History of Early America (PC-SHEA)
Workshop: “Exemplary Women: Female Christian Indian Identity in Anglo-America and Ibero America, 1500-1750”
Jessica Criales, Rutgers University
Ruane Center for the Humanities, 202
https://history.providence.edu/providence-college-seminar-on-the-history-of…<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__history.providence.edu…>
Paper will be circulated one week in advance of the meeting. To be added to the mailing list, email request to sharon.murphy(a)providence.edu<mailto:sharon.murphy@providence.edu>.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran(a)wesleyan.edu<mailto:emmoran@wesleyan.edu>.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/04/0…>
**Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
*Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Harry R. McCarthy (Exeter)
"Busy Boys: Youthful Activity on Early Modern Stages"
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon at pmenon129 (at) gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
Martina Mampieri
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs(a)fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada"
Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request to therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu.
*Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Micha Lazarus (Cambridge)
"Shakespeare’s Aristotle: The Poetics in Early Modern England"
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Sciences Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by James Hankins (Harvard)
Location TBA.
**Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Center for the Study of the Early Modern World, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to make the comparison worthwhile?
Wednesday, April 24, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Renaissance Colloquium
Jillian Luke (Edinburgh)
Graduate Workshop
Room 211, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/05/0…>
*Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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This list announces talks in the greater Boston area pertaining to the study of the earlymodern period ca. 1450-1750, in any discipline and with any regional specialization. Please forward announcements, in the format requested at the end of this message, and e-mail addresses to: earlymod(a)fas.harvard.edu.
Upcoming Events
*January 28, 2019 - 5:30pm
The John Carter Brown Library Annual Sonia Galletti Memorial Lecture
"Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire"
Coll Thrush (UBC)
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Please join us for a lecture by Coll Thrush, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia, based on Indigenous London: Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire (Yale, 2016).
Annual Sonia Galletti Memorial Lecture by Coll Thrush<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/01/2…>
*January 30, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Archival Pleasures; Or, Phillis Wheatley Was Never Alone"
Tara Bynum (Hampshire College), Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellow;
"Death is neither the end, nor the beginning. Another look at the fate of dead Inca kings"
Isabel Yaya McKenzie (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, Paris), Alice E. Adams Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/01/3…
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, 4.00-6.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Ports of Sanctuary: Maritime Marronage, Imperial Law and the Judicial Imaginary of Enslaved Mariners"
Mary Hicks (Amherst College, Mamolen Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request o therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3-4:30/5:00 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Text and Book in Jewish Manuscript and Early Print Culture”
David Stern (Harvard)
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs (at) fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Thursday, Feb. 7, 12 PM (Note: different time),
Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University
Lecture: "Hard Hearts and Boiling Blood: Muslim Encounters with S. Gennaro in Early Modern Naples."
Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University, Dept. of Art & Art History)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
*Thursday, February 7, 2019, 6pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Women and Culture in the Early Modern World
Lecture: "Axes of Uncertainty and the Attribution of Women's Writing in Early Modern England"
Erin McCarthy, University of Newcastle
Room 133, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…
Women and Culture in the Early Modern World | Mahindra Humanities Center - Welcome to Mahindra Humanities Center | Mahindra Humanities Center<http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/women-and-culture-early-m…>
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu
"The Law of Thy Mother": Women and Inheritance in 17th-Century Mothers' Legacy Texts
Friday, February 8, 2019, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"Locke on Complex Ideas and the Ethics of Belief"
Katherine Tabb (Columbia)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Monday, February 11, 2019 - 4:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar Cartography
Lecture: China Translated: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in the Formation of Early Modern World Geography
Florin-Stefan Morar, Harvard University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
Standard accounts about the formation of world geography in the early modern period describe world maps as the result of a process of empirical accumulation of data as result of navigation and exploration, mostly through the agency of European actors. This talk argues that in the case of China another dynamic was at play.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
*Monday, February 11, 3:00-6:30 pm
Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University
3rd International Workshop: Art and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)
- Cosmopolitan Encounters: Jan van Eyck, Castile and the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada in the Early Globalization. Manuel Parada López de Corselas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Visiting Scholar, Harvard University.
- Religious Policies in 15th-Century Castilian Court and the International Context of Flemish Painting. Jesús Folgado García, Universidad Eclesiástica San Dámaso, Madrid.
- Arts and Etiquetas: Titles, Functions, and the Position of Portraitists at the Court of Philip III. William Ambler, Independent Scholar, New York City.
- Gendered Divisions of Space in Spanish Habsburg Palaces. Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Valencia.
- New Spain in Microcosm: Map-Making and Artisanal Praxis in Viceregal Mexico. Dennis Carr, Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Discussion will be moderated by Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University.
Location: RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA
Sponsored by: Real Colegio Complutense; University of Valencia; Fulbright Commission.
https://rcc.harvard.edu/event/3rd-international-workshop-art-and-court-cult…
Registration required at https://rcc.harvard.edu/os_events/nojs/registration/1152968
*Tuesday, February 12, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Tenth Annual New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century Dinner Symposium
Speakers:
Catey Boyle, History, Harvard University; Seohyon Jung, English, Tufts University
Joey Kim, English, Boston University; Delanie Linden, Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Kaitlin Quaranta, French, Brown University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
*Wednesday, February 13, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
"Reframing Worlds: Translating Travel Literature and Early Modern Print Culture"
Myron McShane (University of Toronto), R. David Parsons Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. at Fellow's Talk: Myron McShane<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/1…>
*Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“Captive Objects: Piracy, Slavery, and Religious Artifacts in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Daniel Hershenzon (Comparative Spanish/Mediterranean History, U Conn)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
**Wednesday, Feb 13, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "What Invoking the King´s Name Meant (and What it Did Not). Popular Royalism in Late Colonial Charcas"
Sergio Serulnikov (Universidad de San Andrés-Conicet, Argentina)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request o therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
"Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs (at) fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Tuesday, February 19, 12pm
Early Science Working Group
Lecture: "Kābūs: The Materiality of Nightmares in Islamicate Medical Literature, 1100-1500"
Shireen Hamza, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, February 20, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellows' Talks
"Poverty, Disease, and Port Cities: Global Exchanges in Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration"
Danielle Abdon Guimarães (Temple University), Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellow
"The Black Spaniards: Logics of Inclusion in Colonial Lima"
Marcella Hayes (Harvard University), Charles H. Watts Memorial Fellow
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellows' Talks: Danielle Abdon and Marcella Hayes<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/02/2…>
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“A Communal Tree of Life: Western Sephardic Jews and the Ets Haim Library in Early Modern Amsterdam”
David Sclar
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs (at) fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
*Thursday, 21 Feb., 4:00 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
“How Men of Letters Invented the Scientific Revolution in the Age of Louis XIV”
Oded Rabinovitch (History, Tel Aviv University)
Location: TBD
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Thursday Feb 21, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print"
Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, UMass Amherst, English Department
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/1517-theuerdank-and-maximil…
*Friday, February 22, 2019, 5:30pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Shakespearean Studies
Lecture: "Fairyes or Divels?": Why Oberon belongs in Lust's Dominion
Andrea Crow, Boston College
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/shakespearean-studies
*Monday, February 25, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History
“Peculiarities of the English Enlightenment”
Colin Kidd (Univ of St Andrews, and CES, Harvard)
Location TBA.
Monday, February 25, 3:00-5:00 pm
Harvard History of Philosophy Workshop
"TBA"
Melissa Merritt (University of New South Wales)
Robbins Library, Emerson Hall 211, Harvard Yard
*Monday, Feb 25, 5:30pm (Lecture)
Thursday, Feb 28, 10:00 AM-noon and 2:00-4:00 pm (Workshops)
Houghton Library-Medieval Studies Lecture and Workshops in Early Book History: Speaker Simon Rettig
Houghton Library Seminar Room, Harvard Yard
Join for a lecture by Dr. Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Space in the workshop is limited; RSVP using this form.
*Tuesday, Feb 26, 4:30 pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Adam Teller (History, Brown)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
**Wednesday, Feb 27, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Indigenous Masters of a casa poblada: Indios ladinos and vecindad in Colonial New Kingdom of Granada"
Max Deardorff (The University of Florida)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request o therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
* Thursday Feb 28, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Renaissance Seminar
"Fortune’s Early Modern Turn: From Pagan Goddess to Proto-Capitalist Economics"
Jane Degenhardt, Professor of English, UMass Amherst
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
Website Link<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/fcrs-degenhardt-2019>
*Mar 1, 2019, 4-6pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies: Five College Seminar in Book History
"New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library," a talk by Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire<https://content.hfa.umass.edu/renaissance/event/sean-moore>
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
*Tuesday, March 5, 12pm
Early Science Working Group
Lecture: "Galileo’s Courtroom Drama: Defending the Compass in 1607"
Eileen Reeves, Princeton
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 4:15-6pm
Medieval History Workshop and Early Modern Workshop, both Harvard University
Lecture: “The Fragility of Difference: Animals, Humans, and the Renaissance Invention of Race”
Mackenzie Cooley, Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College; Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell University
Robinson Hall, Lower Library
Abstract: A neologism coined at a moment when humanity appeared capable of perfecting nature, “race” first referred to the differentiation of animal stock through breeding. With a focus on sixteenth-century Spanish Italy, this talk traces early modern breeders’ self-conscious struggle to produce and maintain race and natural philosophers’ preoccupation with its sheer artifice. As race slipped from animals to humans, what began as a means of designating temporary difference limited to a few generations became transgenerationally concretized in the taxonomy of Spanish Empire. Animal malleability became fixed human difference.
*Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk
Katherine Johnston (Beloit College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Atlantic Bodies: Environmental Health and Racial Slavery in the Greater Caribbean"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
(The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.)
Details to follow. Fellow's Talk: Katherine Johnston<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/03/0…>
*Thursday, Mar 7, 2019, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies
Lecture: "'A Strange, Hollow, and Confused Noise': Prospero's Start and the Phenomenology of Magic"
Professor Lyn Tribble, Department of English, University of Connecticut
650 East Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA
https://www.umass.edu/renaissance/event/strange-hollow-and-confused-noise-p…
*Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Roundtable on Political Corruption in the 18th Century
Speakers:
Dwight Codr, English, University of Connecticut
Marilyn Morris, History, University of North Texas
John O’Brien, English, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Wingrove, Political Science, University of Michigan
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/eighteenth-century-studies
**Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Using History in Law: Indigenous Rights"
Thomas Duve (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request o therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
Wednesday, March 13, 2019, 5pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Seminar History of the Book
Lecture: News, Newspapers, and the Limits of Copyright in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot – Institut Universitaire de France
Room S250, CGIS South, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge MA
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/news-newspapers-and-limit…
Friday, March 15, 2019, 12pm
Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Huchins Center, Seminar Meeting
Lecture: “Cape, Sword, and Dagger: Black Militiamen, Tribute, and Privilege”
Sally Hayes (Harvard)
(more information as time approaches!)
*Tuesday, March 19, 4:30 P.M.
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida (U. of Texas at El Paso/Institute of Advanced Study,) Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Tuesday, March 26th, 12pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Cinnamon"
Ahmed Ragab/ Katherine Park, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography
Lecture: Europe and its Amerasian Mirror, 1492-ca. 1700
Elizabeth Horodowich, New Mexico State University
Alexander Nagel, New York University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
In most accounts of European explorations and colonizations after 1492, it is assumed that an initial confusion between America and Asia steadily, even swiftly, gave way to the realization that America was a New World. By considering a wide array of texts, maps, objects, and images produced between 1492 and ca. 1700, it becomes possible instead to inhabit a coherent, if malleable, vision of a world where Mexico really was India, North America was an extension of China, and South America was populated by a variety of biblical and Asian sites.
http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/cartography
*Wednesday, April 3, 2019, 4:30-6:15pm
“‘Qualities of Breeding’: Race, Class, and Conduct in The Merchant of Venice”
Patricia Akhimie (English, Rutgers)
Boger Hall, Room 113, Wesleyan University, 45 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, CT 06459
The seminar meetings are entirely devoted to discussion of previously circulated papers. For a copy of the paper, if you plan to participate in a meeting, please contact Esther Moran at emmoran (at) wesleyan.edu.
Website: http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/
Wesleyan Renaissance Seminar<http://rensem.site.wesleyan.edu/>
rensem.site.wesleyan.edu
An interdepartmental collaboration. I am delighted to announce our schedule for the Spring 2019 term and hope you will be able to join us for continued lively investigations of issues that are invigorating our scholarly fields.
*Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn
Dana Liebsohn (Smith College) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"No Strangers in Trade: Local Residents, Foreign Travelers, and the Art of Pacific Exchange 1750-1850"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Dana Liebsohn<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/04/0…>
*Wednesday, Apr. 3, 5:30pm
Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University
Lecture: "Marriage and Sacrifice: The Poetics of the Epithalamia"
Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
In Spenser’s “Epithalamion,” he invokes two figures from classical antiquity who bore children for Jove. Why Spenser invokes Maia and Alcmene, who lay with Jove against their will, is one question to be explored; another is why Spenser suggests that Jove has also laid with his own bride, Elizabeth.
*Thursday, April 4, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm
Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Sovereignty and the purpose of politics: political thought and religious division c1576-1610"
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
CGIS room K-401, Harvard University, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
The Paper will be pre-circulated about a week before the talk. Please email Priyanka Menon at pmenon129 (at) gmail.com for details
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/politicaltheory/home
Thursday, April 4, 2019, 3-4:30/5 pm
STARR Seminar, Harvard
“Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
Martina Mampieri
Semitic Museum 201, Harvard, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend, please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs (at) fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
**Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 3.00-5.00 pm
The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop
Lecture: "Slavery and Mastery in the South Sea Armada"
Tamara Walker (University of Toronto)
CGIS S450, Harvard, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA
Papers will be available by email upon request o therzog (at) fas.harvard.edu or delafuente (at) fas.harvard.edu
*Tuesday, April 23, 12pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: "Mobility and Materiality: The Case of the Florentine Codex"
Isaac Magaña G Cantón, Harvard
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, Apr. 23, 4:30pm
Brown University Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar
Title to be announced
Amiri Ayanna (grad. stud., History)
Pavilion Room, Department of History, 79 Brown St.
http://blogs.brown.edu/memhs/
*Tuesday, April 23, 5.15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop and Harvard Political Theory Colloquium
Lecture: "Republicanism and Humanism"
Gabriele Pedullà (Università degli Studi Roma 3 and IAS Princeton), with a response by James Hankins (Harvard)
Location TBA.
*Wednesday, April 24, 5:30pm
Program in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Brown University
"Lyric Thinking in the Early Modern World: On the Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Study"
Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale, Comp. Lit),
Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, 21 Brown St., Providence, RI 02912.
Can we usefully discuss lyric traditions in Europe and South Asia alongside each other—or are the particular literary and linguistic histories of these regions too disparate to make the comparison worthwhile?
*Monday, April 29, 2019 - 5:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Cartography
Talk Title TBA
Surekha Davies, John Carter Brown Library Fellow
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, April 30, 12pm
Early Science Working Group, Harvard
Lecture: “Quid pro quo: Europeans and their ‘Skill Capital’ in Eighteenth-Century Beijing”
Eugenio Menegon, BU
Room 252, Harvard Science Center, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge MA
*Tuesday, April 30, 5:15pm
Harvard Early Modern Workshop
Lecture: "Bible exegesis, the ancient Israelites and the early modern question of usury"
Avinoam Naeh (Hebrew University and Harvard), with comment by Sophus Reinert (HBS).
Robinson Lower Library, Harvard Yard
*Tuesday, April 30, 2019 - 6:00pm
Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar Eighteenth Century Studies
Talk Title TBA
Stephanie De Gooyer, Radcliffe Institute, Willamette University
Room 133, Barker Center, Harvard, 12 Quincy St., Cambridge MA
*Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 4:00pm
The John Carter Brown Library Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado
Fabrício Prado (The College of William & Mary) National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow
"Inter-American Connections: North-South American Networks in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions"
The John Carter Brown Library, 94 George Street, Providence RI 02906
Details to follow. The Reading Room will close at 3:30 pm.
Fellow's Talk: Fabrício Prado<https://www.brown.edu/academics/libraries/john-carter-brown/event/2019/05/0…>
*Save the Date:
June 11–13, 2019
Boston College, Institut for Advanced Jesuit Studies
International Symposium on Jesuit Studies
"Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus"
www.bc.edu/iajs.
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